Call for papers Mathematical Programming Series B Special Issue on "Large Scale Nonlinear and Semidefinite Programming"

We invite research articles for a forthcoming issue of Mathematical Programming, Series B, on "large scale nonlinear and semidefinite programming". This issue is in memory of and dedicated to Jos Sturm ( obituary, research interests).

The issue is associated with the May/04 workshop at the University of Waterloo

Interior point methods (IPMs) have changed the landscape for both linear and nonlinear programming in the last fifteen years. In conjunction with breakthroughs in computer hardware, tremendously large problems are being solved. However, the success in linear programming dwarfs that for general Nonlinear Programming and, in particular, for Semidefinite Programming (SDP). The focus of this special issue is on large scale nonlinear programming, and, in particular, on Cone Programming such as Semidefinite and Second Order Cone Programming.

The focus includes the following topics:

• algorithmic nonlinear optimization;
• computational methods and NP-hard problems involving large-scale nonlinear and/or semidefinite programming
• scientific parallel computing for (large-scale) hard combinatorial optimization problems.

Deadline for submission of full papers: Nov. 1, 2004. We aim at completing a first review of all papers by May 1, 2005.

Electronic submissions to the guest editors in the form of pdf files are encouraged. All submissions will be refereed according to the usual standards of Mathematical Programming. Information about mathematical programming, along with author guidelines, is available here (in pdf format). Additional information about the special issue can be obtained from the guest editors.

Guest Editors:

Erling Andersen (e.d.andersen AT mosek.com)
Etienne de Klerk ( edeklerk AT uwaterloo.ca)
Levent Tuncel ( ltuncel AT math.uwaterloo.ca)
Henry Wolkowicz ( hwolkowicz AT uwaterloo.ca)
Shuzhong Zhang ( zhang AT se.cuhk.edu.hk)